QA Engineer

Role Overview

• Own and execute manual test cases across Artificial's product suite and customer specifications
• including functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing
• ensuring thorough coverage before releases reach production
• Write clear, detailed test plans and test cases based on product requirements, acceptance criteria, and specification documents; identify edge cases and risk areas; ensure traceability between requirements and test coverage
• Test new and updated customer configurations and specifications to validate they meet requirements and behave correctly within the platform — reducing reliance on Field Delivery Engineers for quality verification
• Identify, document, and triage defects with clear reproduction steps, severity assessments, and supporting evidence in Linear; follow up with engineering teams to verify fixes and close the loop
• Execute regression test suites ahead of releases to catch unintended side effects; help maintain and expand the regression library as the product evolves
• Support QA touch points across Discovery (smoke-testing prototypes and early builds), Delivery (thorough testing of bets and features during development cycles), and Optimisation (validating bug fixes and investigating production issues)
• Contribute to the development of QA processes, standards, and best practices as the QA function is established; provide feedback on what's working and what needs improvement from the front line of testing
• Work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Solutions/FDEs to understand requirements, clarify expected behaviour, and ensure alignment on quality expectations for each release or specification
• Maintain test documentation, test results, and coverage records; contribute to a growing knowledge base of product behaviour, known issues, and testing approaches
• As the team's automation capability matures over the first 6-12 months, actively transition high-volume regression and repetitive test cases into automated suites; develop your own automation skills with support from the QA Team Lead and existing tooling (Playwright, CI/CD pipelines)

Requirements

• 2–5 years of experience in a QA or software testing role, with a strong foundation in manual testing techniques
• Proven ability to write clear, structured test plans and test cases from requirements and specifications
• Experience with systematic testing approaches
• functional, regression, integration, exploratory
• and the judgement to know when each is appropriate
• Excellent bug reporting skills
• you write reproduction steps that engineers can act on immediately
• Experience with defect tracking and test management tools (e.g. Linear, Jira, or equivalent)
• A methodical, detail-oriented approach with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working across multiple product areas and workstreams simultaneously
• Experience testing complex, configurable SaaS platforms where customer-specific configurations need validating
• Worked in financial services, insurtech, or similarly regulated environments
• Familiarity with API testing tools (e.g. Postman, REST clients) and browser developer tools
• Some exposure to test automation frameworks or scripting (e.g. Cypress, Playwright, Selenium) — you don't need to be an automation expert, but curiosity and willingness to learn is valued
• Experience working within Shape Up, Scrum, or similar iterative delivery frameworks
• Worked in a growing team where QA processes were still being established, and you helped shape them

Tech Stack

• Cypress
• Selenium

Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Income protection insurance
• Life insurance of 4 * base salary
• On-site gym and shower facilities
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Team social events and company parties
• Salary exchange on pension and nursery fees
• Access to Maji, the financial wellbeing platform
• Company stock options managed through Ledgy
• Milestone Birthday Bonus and a Life Events leave policy
• Generous holiday allowance of 28 days plus national holidays
• Home office and equipment allowance, and a company MacBook
• Learning allowance and leave to attend conferences or take exams
• YuLife employee benefits, including EAP and bereavement helplines
• For each new hire, we plant a tree through our partnership with Ecologi
• Action The best coffee machine in London, handmade in Italy and imported just for us!